The Beautiful Bantam Cochin!

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Stormie's a Blue Mottled! With mottling, their juvenile feathering is typically white-fronted with a solid colored back like that. As she molts out her juvenile feathering and replaces it with her adult feathering, she'll look more like what you'd expect from Mottled.


As for my birds, we're all good here as normal. My Chocolate cockerel's gotten a bit too big for his britches so he's been separated from the flock for a week or so now to cool his jets. I've been waiting on a good snowstorm to move birds around so that they won't be anticipating free-range time and perhaps be less antsy in their new arrangements, but we're having an unusually warm January and haven't had snow since December of course.

Yeah @Poodlemum said Stormie is mottled too! I can go with that!.
I just rehomed my 6 month old boy and had to give his hatchmate with him in order to sell him...BUT the flock dynamics are soooo much better and no more middle of the night crowing - thank God!!!
We are having unusually warm here too! I actually got to move compost around today and LUVED it!!! Smelt amazing and ready for the garden!

@Poodlemum I'm so sorry yall have been so sick! Sick at Christmas is awful!
And your Brahma! I'm so sorry!!! That's horrible! You did the best you could with yall being sick. Don't beat yourself up!

 

[lissasmomma1]

My sweet love monkey, my beautiful golden lace Cochin hen. Miss Waddles Waffle Bar. Isn't she perfect?!? She's seven months old

 

[Tonyroo]

My sweet love monkey, my beautiful golden lace Cochin hen. Miss Waddles Waffle Bar. Isn't she perfect?!? She's seven months old

Very nice.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

My sweet love monkey, my beautiful golden lace Cochin hen. Miss Waddles Waffle Bar. Isn't she perfect?!? She's seven months old

She's beautiful!

 

[WallyG74]

 

[kurby22]

Yesterday I was able to snag a very young breeding pair of bobtail bantams and I’m super excited about them! For a person that doesn’t really go out of my way to own bantam Cochins I sure have enough of them My OG group of blues are pet quality, their two babies are a bit better quality but not show quality at all, so I’m hoping these new two will be a fun project bird for future shows. Even if they can’t make it in shows they might throw some that do!

Here are the two newbies!

And here’s an update on the babies—Ariana Sushi and Brie

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Extremely jealous of those Bobtails!! So gorgeous!

 

[kurby22]

Extremely jealous of those Bobtails!! So gorgeous!

I know! I needed them like I need a hole in the head…but I couldn’t not. Haha. It just felt wrong Her sisters were in the show and they were gorgeous

The coloring is just so magical they also had a Crele male that was just gorgeous…so hard to walk away

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Yesterday I was able to snag a very young breeding pair of bobtail bantams and I’m super excited about them! For a person that doesn’t really go out of my way to own bantam Cochins I sure have enough of them My OG group of blues are pet quality, their two babies are a bit better quality but not show quality at all, so I’m hoping these new two will be a fun project bird for future shows. Even if they can’t make it in shows they might throw some that do!

Here are the two newbies!
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And here’s an update on the babies—Ariana Sushi and Brie
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They are all so beautiful!
So the male bobtail you got is quite a bit lighter than the female.
You kinda got my hopes up when I saw your girlee that my lil Stormie could possibly be a bobtail!
Guess she's just a little too dark a grey for that.

 

[WallyG74]